Christopher Greenup

Christopher Greenup (1750-27 April 1818) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-KY 1) from 9 November 1792 to 3 March 1797, preceding Thomas Terry Davis; he also served as Governor of Kentucky from 5 September 1804 to 1 September 1808, succeeding James Garrard and preceding Charles Scott.

Biography
Christopher Greenup was born in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1750, and, in 1781, he helped to settle present-day Lincoln County, Kentucky. He became a lawyer and served as clerk of Harrodsburg from 1785 to 1792, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1792 to 1797, having been clerk of the first Kentucky statehood convention in 1784. From 1802 to 1804, he served as a circuit court judge, and he went on to serve as Governor from 1804 to 1808. In 1812, he served as a presidential elector, and he became a justice of the peace in Franklin County in 1812. He died in 1818.